I don't use a modem but to me unless you can log in to your ISP account you will never get online. Life is much simpler with a modem/router where all the connection details are made and you are just making a lan connection to your pc, plus you have the added benefits of a firewall and multiple machine connections. Can you find some way of installing network manager, using your other pc maybe. Is there an interface you can access on your modem via a web browser to set your username and pasword.

If this works (without taking a long time), you are connected, so it is not a network problem, but a browser problem. (Did you change proxy settings?) Try a different browser and/or try a different profile (create one clean).

Luis

Pedroski

Post subject: RE: Re: RE: pixels everywhere Posted: 08.03.2012, 23:38

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That's what I thought from the beginning: pppoeconf has connected to the net. I tried Konquerer and Ice Weasel, which come with the disc. Neither works.

This, from my past experience with Debian, must be a permissions thing: I do not have permission to access the web. That's a bit silly, as it is a dvd version of aptosid, where accesss for any user is important.

I'll try to toggle the user groups, see if I can make it work. I don't want to install a Linux that cannot access the web!!

Addendum: today I started the AMD64 kernel, ran pppoeconf, brought up the net.